Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oppenheimer was also a co-conspirator at the protest of a speech delivered by Ralph Reed at the Institute of Politics. There, Oppenheimer and several other students dressed themselves in nun's habits, and staged a kiss-in where men kissed men and women kissed women...
Oppenheimer and others were dragged out of the protest by police and now, six months after the incident, Oppenheimer says he issued a complaint with University officials immediately after the protest charging that they violated his rights. According to University policy, demonstrators are allowed to protest as long as they do not prevent the speaker from being seen or heard for an extended period of time...
...Free speech was used to silence us," he says, noting that the protesters stood at the back of the Reed speech and held up signs reading "No Free Speech for Faggots" in protest...
...Campus activism, as opposed to activism in a broader community, is not my priority," he says, noting that last fall's Reed protest was for a national cause...
Oppenheimer says that he picked up some of the activist tactics he used at Harvard, like the protest in drag in Mansfield's class, while in London...